Election Name: | 1944 United States Senate election in North Dakota |
Country: | North Dakota |
Flag Year: | 1914 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1938 United States Senate election in North Dakota |
Previous Year: | 1938 |
Next Election: | 1946 United States Senate special election in North Dakota |
Next Year: | 1946 (special) |
Election Date: | November 7, 1944 |
Image1: | File:John Moses.jpg |
Nominee1: | John Moses |
Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 95,102 |
Percentage1: | 45.20% |
Nominee2: | Gerald Nye |
Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 69,530 |
Percentage2: | 33.04% |
Image3: | File:3x4.svg |
Nominee3: | Lynn Stambaugh |
Party3: | Independent Republican (United States) |
Popular Vote3: | 44,596 |
Percentage3: | 21.19% |
Map Size: | 300px |
U.S. Senator | |
Before Election: | Gerald Nye |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | John Moses |
After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1944 United States Senate election in North Dakota took place on November 7, 1944. Incumbent Republican Senator Gerald Nye ran for re-election to his fourth term. He faced a serious challenge to his renomination in the Republican primary, with prominent Fargo attorney Lynn Stambaugh and Congressman Usher L. Burdick running against him. He won with one-third of the vote, defeating Shambaugh, his closest opponent, by fewer than 1,000 votes. In the general election, Stambaugh continued his campaign against Nye as an independent,[1] splitting the Republican vote as Governor John Moses, the Democratic nominee, ran a strong campaign. Though Nye had benefited from crowded general elections before, he bled Republican support to Stambaugh and Moses unseated him with just 45% of the vote. However, just a few months into Moses's term, he died in office, flipping the seat back to Republican control and triggering a June 1946 special election.